Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grasped the little man 's arms desperately and they lay looking into each other 's faces . |
| 2 | The story of how the defenders withstood the might of Cromwell 's army , of how the Honours were smuggled out from the castle under the very noses of the English and hidden beneath the floor of nearby Kineff Kirk , and of how they lay buried for eight long years until returned once more to Edinburgh Castle , is one of the most well known , oft-repeated tales of Scottish history . |
| 3 | As always they lay exhausted in each other 's arms , their sated bodies languid and limp , Fernando soothing her fevered brow with tender kisses of love . |
| 4 | They remain shut to this day . |
| 5 | Three countries — Denmark , Ireland and Belgium — meanwhile indicated yesterday that they remain opposed to another key element , which forsees the abolition of all limits on tax-paid goods that can be carried across borders by private travellers . |
| 6 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 7 | INSET courses are normally conceived for practising teachers who require refresher courses from time to time : when unqualified teachers take part in them , they remain classed as untrained teachers by the end of their course . |
| 8 | Although the Tories plan to reduce manpower by an average of 20pc across the three services they remain committed to several important new orders . |
| 9 | Estate agents will now have to give consumers more information , with specific requirements to write to clients informing them of services they intend to offer to prospective purchasers , and to explain in writing terms such as ‘ sole agency ’ , ‘ ready , willing and able ’ , and ‘ sole selling rights ’ . |
| 10 | The prison authorities see this flexibility as the principal benefit both for the deliverer and the candidate and they intend to build on this in future . |
| 11 | Users should provide their own benchmarks , preferably an emulation of the sort of application they intend to run with comparable workload . |
| 12 | Most editors and journalists are perfectly honest about the fact that when they need help they tend to go to those PROs who have been helpful in the past . |
| 13 | But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important . |
| 14 | Good spatial resolution means that they tend to respond to high spatial frequencies . |
| 15 | They tend to fall into two broad groups : |
| 16 | Consequently they tend to opt for conservative technologies . |
| 17 | Japanese firms prefer long-term reliable and exclusive business relationships and they tend to turn to established channels to develop new business initiatives . |
| 18 | Conversely , they tend to converge in higher-status speech on a much narrower phonetic area , but are less responsive to environmental constraints . |
| 19 | Mothers and babies are suitable cases for treatment because they tend to stay in one place , there are only two subjects at a time , and their behaviour together is relatively stereotyped and uncomplicated . |
| 20 | Instead , they tend to focus on formal job descriptions , as these are key to performance appraisals . |
| 21 | They tend to come in large groups , but there are singletons and couples as well . |
| 22 | But perhaps the most worrying , if most ephemeral , comment is that researchers are unwilling to take risks to open up new lines of research ; they tend to stick to piecemeal additions to well-established paths . |
| 23 | Even when people do go for walks , they tend to keep to public paths and these are often also severely eroded ( Coleman , 1981 ) . |
| 24 | Conceit , because they tend to attribute to human beings a position in the world to which , a position of importance in the world , to which they 're not entitled . |
| 25 | Agencies too easily assume that the competition for the brands and services they advertise comes from other advertisers . |
| 26 | They are er Stuart but they replace replacing by eleven new trees to be planted eight among the seating area on Albert Street and three on erm the footway outside the Horse and Groom . |
| 27 | Mostly about the film — and they want to talk about another book . ’ |
| 28 | If they want to opt for both they 're going to have a very , very hard time , that 's indisputable . |
| 29 | So we look for situations where our learners will really have something they want to say to each other . |
| 30 | That speakers do introduce what they want to say via some form of personal reference has a noticeable effect on the structure of contributions in conversational discourse . |